Jürg Hanselmann (born 23 September 1960) is a Swiss-Liechtenstenian pianist, composer and music educator. He teaches piano and composition at the Sargans Cantonal School.
Life
Born in Grabs, Hanselmann grew up in Schaan (Principality of Liechtenstein) and received his first piano lessons from Regina Enzenhofer at the Liechtenstein Music School in Vaduz. His first compositions date back to his early youth.
At the age of 17, he was a student of Albert Schneeberger and Kristina Steinegger at the Bern Conservatory, today's University of Music and Performing Arts. There, he obtained the soloist diploma "with distinction". His further education led him to London to the Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner and to Frankfurt to the Russian pianist Irina Lein-Edelstein.[1]
His pianistic concert activities have taken Hanselmann to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Italy and several times to the USA.[2] In his concert activities, duo performances with his wife Sandra Hanselmann took place. The Duo Hanselmann deals with literature for piano duo. CD recordings with piano duo works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger have been released on the Prezioso label. Further works for two pianos have been published by Carus-Verlag and the Bernese publishing house Müller & Schade.
As a Lied accompanist, Hanselmann cultivates his collaboration with the Austrian tenor Karl Jerolitsch, with whom he has released a recording of his Hesse Liederkreis with the Bernese music publisher Müller & Schade [3] Hanselmann performed chamber music concerts in trio with Claudio Veress and David Inniger. Among others, works by Sándor Veress were performed several times.
His love of music and painting also unites him in the Segantini Trio with the cellist Katharina Weissenbacher and the clarinettist Franco Mettler. For the foundation of the trio in 2017, Hanselmann composed his second clarinet trio "Triptych".
Hanselmann's compositional oeuvre is also published by Müller & Schade in Bern. In 2012, Hanselmann was awarded first prize in the composition competition of the Deutsche Oper Berlin within the chamber music series "Klang der Welt" for his work Ricercar for wind quintet.
Among the CD recordings of Hanselmann and the Duo Hanselmann are a complete recording of the piano works of Josef Rheinberger on 11 CDs (Carus Verlag), as well as 2 CDs with piano works by Nikolai Medtner (1993 and 1998), 1 CD with works for 2 pianos by Johannes Brahms. A collection of piano pieces on the theme "The railway in piano music"[4] contains, among others, Rossini's Un petit train de plaisir and Honegger's piano arrangement of his orchestral piece Pacific 231, a first recording in this piano version.[5]
Since March 2015 Hanselmann has been President of the International Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Society IRG, based in Vaduz.[6]
Awards and prizes
Jürg Hanselmann, 2017
1980: Eduard Tschumi Prize, Bern
1980: Prize of the Jubilee Foundation of the Swiss Volksbank, Berne
1983: Migros Competition, Zurich
1987: Rotary Prize, Liechtenstein
1991: Culture Prize of the International Lake Constance Conference, Munich
2005: Josef Gabriel von Rheinberger Prize, Vaduz
2012: 1st prize in the composition competition "Klang der Welt" of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Compositions
Instrumental music
Piano music solo
Lyrical pieces, 1976/1979
Four piano pieces, 1983
Lyrical pieces, 2001
Passacaglia (Homage to Rheinberger), 2003
Three pieces of railway, 2004
Railway Sonatina, 2005
1st sonata, 2005/2006
Night play, 2006
Toccata American, 2006
Wind Chimes, 2007
Three concert etudes, 2007
Abendstern - Four pieces for piano, 2011
Youth album, 2011
Two album pages for Rebecca, 2011
Passacaglia, 2013
8 epigrams in canonical form, 2013
Four nocturnes for piano, 2014
A little musical nonsense (Sonatina Buffa) for piano, 2015
Autumn Sonata for piano, 2015
6 Préludes for piano, 2016
11 mood pictures in canonical form for piano, 2016
2nd sonata for piano, 2016
4 concert etudes for piano, 2016
4 Elegiac Pieces for piano, 2017
Segantini studies for piano, 2018
November, seven mood pictures for piano, 2018
Scenes of children, 2019
January, 8 mood pictures for piano, 2019
Two Ophelia Fantasias for piano, 2019
Hymnus 2007, arrangement for piano
Piano music for several players
Elements, 1993/1994
Youth album for piano for one, two, three & four hands, 1996
Tabulatura (old dances and tunes) for 2 pianos and percussion, 2005
Tabulatura (old dances and tunes), version for 2 pianos, 2005
Sonata for two pianos, 2008
SALtarello, 2010, arranged as concert version for two pianos
Paradise Lost, 2010, arranged as concert version for 2 pianos
Tarantella, 2010, arranged as concert version for 2 pianos
Toccata for two pianos, 2013
Notturno for two pianos, 2013
Sonata for piano 4 hands, 2015
Concertante pieces
Dies Irae, Variations for two pianos and orchestra, 2005
Concert for the left hand, for piano and orchestra, 2008
Concert for two pianos and orchestra, 2016
Orchestral pieces
Sinfonietta for orchestra, 2007
Hymn for orchestra, 2007
Hymnus for string orchestra (short version), 2007
Hymn for harp and strings (short version), 2009
Partita for chamber orchestra, 2009
SALtarello, concert overture for large orchestra 2009
Paradise Lost for orchestra, 2010
Tarantella for orchestra, 2010
"Euridice" - Notturno for orchestra, 2011
Ikarus for string orchestra, 2013, rev. 2018
Chamber music
"Lamentationes" for viola and piano, 2007-2008
Partita for string quintet, 2009
Ricercare for wind quintet, 2011
"Orfeo" - Notturno for piano and wind quintet, 2011
Toccata for piano and wind quintet, 2014
Trio for piano, violin and violoncello, 2014
Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello, 2015
Autumn sonata for harp, 2015
3 Elegiac Vocalises for soprano, clarinet and piano, 2016
Notturno for violin, violoncello and piano, 2016
Sonata for clarinet in A and piano, 2016
2nd Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano, "Triptych", 2017
Sonata for violin and piano, 2018
Vocal music
Lieder with piano accompaniment
Liederkreis nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse für Gesang (Tenor) und Klavier, 2011
Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Sebastien Fanzun für Tenor und Klavier, 2012
Matutinal, Liederzyklus nach Gedichten von Sebastien Fanzun für Tenor und Klavier, 2013
An Mauern hin, Liederkreis nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl, 2016
